the lens that pays around forty eight percent tax germany pays around forty percent average families that pay in tax now we spoke to a few londoners on the streets and asked them about how they feel about how much tax they pay let's take a listen i'm not particularly looking for us personally each player such as think it should be fair across the board move people should pay proportionately. to. working with you know getting from it really. feels like it's all going to the fact that for the. communities it's just so as you can see you know a lot of people just extremely frustrated that they aren't getting any of their local services back it's demoralizing figure and as the government had promised to recognize marriage to provide some of these tax breaks they haven't done that yet and in the run up to christmas with prices on the rise through prices fuel prices just the price of heating a family's home this is very very bad news and

a lot of people feeling extremely frustrated about it. italian prime minister mario monti who has a non-elected cabinet of technocrats stated that he plans to resign the news came hours after the country's former prime minister silvio berlusconi announced he is to run for office in next year's parliamentary elections on thursday all these people of freedom party withdrew it from the government and he says montes astaire policies have harmed italy and he hopes to lead the country out of the financial crisis the seventy six year old has already served as italy's prime minister for three separate terms he's currently caught up in a number of scandals including tax fraud convictions which he's appealing at accusations of paying for sex with an underage prostitute something he denies. nearly two hundred countries have agreed to extend the kyoto protocol a treaty that limits the greenhouse gas out with some nations and hopes of curbing

global warming the legally binding plan was approved by un delegates during climate talks in doha the summit established for the first time the rich nations should move towards reimbursing poor nations for losses due to climate change. but as well and president hugo chavez has announced he is suffering from cancer again the leader says tests showed a return of some malignant cells in the same area where tumors have been previously removed you were turned to cuba word he's already received cancer treatment to undergo surgery in the coming days the news comes two months after chavis was reelected this president in a tight vote. russia says it is drawing up a blacklist of u.s. officials it considers guilty of human rights abuses the move comes in response to the so-called list of banned russians which american lawmakers approved this week the motions named after sergei magnitsky a lawyer who died in russian police custody three years ago washington blames

moscow for his death accusations the kremlin strongly denies russia warns it will now sanction americans responsible for abuses and one ton of the grave and secret cia prisons worldwide journalist down the bar says the route exposes us of her see . russian foreign minister should respond to such an obvious insult where the united states probably the preeminent violator of human rights at this point in terms of scale magnitude and depth pointing its finger at anyone certainly the person who's having their finger that finger in their face should reply point out you have no standing to accuse us of anything and stand up for themselves canada has been voting and acting in concert with the united states for the last few years now if you look at the votes on israel for example you'll find the united states canada and you know like some small rock in the middle of the pacific voting on one

side and the rest of the world on the other and just a few minutes here on our t.v. india's ambition value once a slice of the liberty of oil and gas reserves in the south china sea but with beijing the region's powerhouse each one worried there is an elf room for the to the ground. now u.s. authorities can obtain and study data on that european store online overreaching europe's strict privacy protection laws and that's according to a report issued by the university of amsterdam saying washington is being shielded by the anterior terror of patriot act one of the authors of a report absalom bach believes that a national privacy regulations should be stepped up. normally in an offline world you would have cooperation between governments that would respect international human rights standards but as these companies in the cloud are. conducting

systematic best business and united states direct actions just warms all over the world internet surveillance is increasing and it's quite breakneck speed so a solution would be. to at least try and come to some international standard of how to resolve all this and what does privacy mean i know that this is a very ambitious goal but as we all move into the internet and as we all as it all becomes a part of our daily lives free speech and privacy online is becoming ever more important colombia's government and far crabbe also have restarted peace talks and have vanished this week amid the deadliest military raid against the armed insurgency ascends talks began in a tobar the colombian president says an agreement must be reached by next november at the latest and has vowed to keep up military operations he declared out of the rebels disarm they were given a pass into politics during an exclusive interview to r.t. a tough market official says they are desperate for peace but claims they're being

forced to fight for it well don't miss our talk with time that's meyer in full in a few minutes but for now here's a quick preview we have not taken the arms because we wanted we have taken the arms because the colombian state and the united states imperialism have obliged to compel us to do so people who are in colombia want to fight for ideas different than the liberal ideas are killed so how is it possible to participate in politics if people who have other ideas i kill. and that's the reason of the armed struggle in colombia that's the reason why we are still fighting. after five years of anticipation the construction of multi-billion dollar south stream gas pipeline finally broke ground on friday this as russia's gazprom aims to

ensure energy supplies to europe the project is designed to pump gas through the black sea directly to the continent bypassing transit countries like ukraine where in the past disagreements resulted in deliveries to customers in western europe being disrupted gas from owns fifty percent of the south stream pipeline the rest is split between france germany and italy the project also comes with a price tag of more than twenty billion dollars making it one of the most expensive and edgy supply systems on earth they seen as warned india against pursuing oil exploration in the disputed resource rich south china sea it comes in reaction to this week's statement by india's navy chief who announced his country could go as far as sending warships to the area to protect its economic interests he is going off investigated the claims. as china and india rise economically their military muscles are growing as well both need energy to

keep that kind of growth going and that may be putting the two asian giants on a collision course because of the mess that nationalism the indian government cannot afford to be seem to be weak in dealing with china obviously a higher power with government. over two hundred billion barrels of oil and large amounts of natural gas that's more than the vast majority of the world's energy rich nations have all hidden under the south china sea china claims most of the territory for itself but india has also managed to get access by buying a stake in a vietnamese gas field shortly after hanoi accuse chinese boats of sandwich dodging exploration india warned it's ready to use force to defend its interests hopefully as i said the trip not to lead to a longer term conflict but you know it's it's a new the inevitable because both these countries now large ambitions of becoming

global actors and players both china and india have been pumping billions of u.s. dollars into their armies and navies holding drills on a regular basis and beijing has also announced its police will soon start to board and inspect foreign vessels surely the vast oil reserves in the south china sea are just too big of a cash for neither trying out working here to pass out what they really want to accomplish between the two economic power houses so is it really a game that neither can win the two asian giants can't afford any weaknesses and that would make it easier for other countries to take a bite of the vast resources the u.s. has long been increasing its economic and military presence in the region this in yes there west's trying to pick this expansion by both in the china terms of the last. four holes that the girl. seeing that the wall is a military clash so if the two eastern powerhouses can share nicely of the carrots

maybe they will go to some other players already prowling on the sidelines you got this going over r t now right after the short break as promised our frank discussion of whether colombian rebels fishel on the ins and outs of their stand off where the government. would be so much brighter if you move the song from fans to impression is so. nice for instance on t.v. dot com. the gold fever.

turns thousands into slaves. my father but also among others involved in the mines and since i started working in the mine i stayed here to look at it if it multinationals. make it a cash cow to be milked dry and if i think that in this country gold medal logie has an environmental cost which is an acceptable local business was labeled illegal and controlled by criminals you know in order to protect our lives our families and to work in peace. we are forced to pay protection to illegal groups what price is colombia going to pay. the people the modest effect on r.t. .

three. dollars for your media. r.t. dot com. my. when i welcome alexandra it's good to see here well as the many revolutionary leaders have

given up on armed struggle over time some of them consider the thing of the past that does far someone needs to pursue dialogue fit into this trend this is it that you no longer believe in god will warfare. because i wouldn't the reason right now and have vanna is that we have always asked for dialogue and a peaceful solution but the colombian government has kept us banned from politics we took up arms not because we wanted to or because we enjoy fighting we only use them as a means of justified protection from the terrorist ways of the colombian government the colombian government has been trying to put an end to this armed conflict for decades so what's new and different about this attempt at talks and how ana is compared to the previous ones and do the prospects look any brighter. we are very optimistic and the frog delegation about the peace talks colombia has always displayed a pattern of rise and decline in regards to its social movement its present movement and its labor movement but right now i believe that movement is gaining

ground in an unprecedented way it is apparent that the people of colombia khan's take this rule any longer they are already asking for peace and they are increasingly joining the social movement we actually want to the colombian people to stand behind us in our efforts to establish dialogue and so they will i believe that a large scale popular movement is what makes all the difference as compared to the previous attempt to peace day after day more people are taking to the streets to protest it seems they're no longer afraid of the government and its terror tactics because it's more than they're willing to put up with another factor is that latin america has changed they're getting support from cuba venezuela and other latin american nations and in fact it's been very helpful for us in forging an understanding with the colombian government it is a very powerful external factor. but most colombians to believe that

fark should take responsibility for the crimes they committed and pay the penalty for them what's your view on this it was their perspective. bridges. it's somewhat absurd to ask for the punishment of people who have always acted out of a legitimate need to protect ourselves and as i've already said we're not at because we want one we want peace but social justice too and we've never had any of this here in colombia if someone hits you fast and you hit them back in self-defense are you to be punished for that i say this is just an example to show you how we actually view the war in colombia and our role in it it's all about self-defense. or you have declared a ceasefire do you think the government of colombia may follow suit on the go in there. looking the government seems unwilling to respond with a cease fire in their turn so it's going to be a unilateral act for a two month period they have been asking us to take some steps for

a long time they keep saying that they need some peaceful justice so we take those steps but we wonder what the response of measures from the government are. they pursued them and then a couple of years ago after the diaries had been seized by the army and disclosed you were in the spotlight all over the world from those notes many people concluded that you were criticizing the system or that we're going to zation how do you explain that if that's true then how come you're a member of the organization whose internal regulations you don't fully approve of let them into the political system. first i'd like to note that this was a very inappropriate use of my diary which was supposed to be personal property and i set out to pass it to my parents but this is a different story everything that was written that dealt with my daily routine every person in any organization have their ups and downs and can sometimes be

critical who makes press our criticism out loud and sides of the organization and that's resolve the problem that period was particularly hard for me as i had to adapt to living in a guerilla group in the forest moreover i needed to get used to colombian culture so it was not easy for me and i recall those days quite often. people call us terrorists many of them claim that to attack civilians and recruit children by fools why then there was nothing of that in my diary nobody has ever wondered i've never come across any speculation on this issue in the media no one tried to figure out why there wasn't anything written about me having just returned from a mass slaughter of civilians or about me recruiting kids i have never written anything like that in my diary i wrote for example that i had run out of cigarettes and our commander had some so those notes were really light headed and it occurred to me how silly they were when i was reading them still those were my thoughts

which i had back then and you can trace back the entire process of my adaptation to living in the woods with a guerrilla group. well there are really groups who have lost several of their leaders in recent years and they seem to be weaker how do you view your organization how large is it and how is it structured when it appears i think when we speak of ups and downs they're always there for our organization a downturn means that state terrorism and apparent is a dominating we have seen this and the plan colombia and the patriot plan which provided for an all out who are against us large scale military operations complete with our strikes that are for our movement as presently on the defensive but we should take a broader outlook into the future because drunk one started with the me out food aid to members if we still had that many today we wouldn't be there in havana right now and why are we here from

a military point of view the government is not want to negotiate with a losing opponent that partnering with us because they realize they have been unable to defeat us and military terms that's the most important reason behind the negotiation. as you do the five members live by the rules of communism as was initially proclaimed or are these signs of capitalism influencing you as a community us. we have our regulations which lay out the rules and requirements for all the fact fighters at all levels from commandants to money and down to every single guerilla including those who might have joined our ranks just yesterday those rules apply to all admittedly violations a car there are always people who neglect rules for example being a gorilla you're not supposed to keep a personal radio or an m p three player because it can get you detected and fired

upon if a fighter violates this rule when it to instill some sense into them it may be some sort of penalty or a critical witness estimate of that person to be deliberated at a group meeting such meetings with every eight days you can voice personal criticism if you believe that a fellow gorilla has behaved in appropriately act as a chauvinist or gravitates towards capitalism and wants to have things with oneself and disregards the interests of the team to fight his comrades will point to these issues and even the person in question may criticize oneself many problems get solved this way it will be. the colombian government and the united states have always insisted that far the lives of drug trafficking but the guerrillas have always a denied it if it's not drug money used to find your privilege or a struggle than what. having no in colombia known as act of government to which obliges every citizen to pay

a special tax to finance the government's war against its own people that fool would believe anyone who makes a million dollars the moon must pay a revolutionary tax to the guerrillas so will love this tax and in areas where they grow coca plants and where people have nothing else except for the coca we tax the cartels who make a lot of money on this business but we won't tax the village folk who own but a few had his of kancha bush's each that is why everyone wants to draw a relation between coca and the guerillas in other areas where they have different businesses we also have a our tax differently but the reality in colombia is such that every institution across the country is involved in drug trafficking so wherever we go collecting our tax now always local drug dealers and cartel members to be found and they will have to pay us a war acquires money just like a car needs an engine to run. fork announced earlier this year that

it would no longer kidnap people but if you individuals are still held captive what are their prospects is their plan to have them released. we hold no captives. some time ago there was an organization that used to claim that we how some three thousand people in captivity that was before last february when we announced we would stop taking captives due to economic reasons that was when we took an account of all our prisoners and found that we have nine of them all in all i think it would be helpful if the government were to announce a cease fire them a good invite to the red cross or human rights missions to each of our fronts for them to see first hand how many captives were holding and they would see that their alleged schools of prisoners were held are actually non-existent now i'm aware that there are some fifty thousand people missing in our country after all these years of fighting and that suggests that some of those fifty thousand must be in our

custody so why not find out what the truth is and let the world know to say. you've requested me to call you alexandra why is it so important for a gorilla to go under a different name. for. this because this is my combat name when you come to the bush is human your name because war requires secrecy secrecy and mystery are of great importance for gorillas we don't know each other's legal name is and we don't keep our ways that's the way it goes in any war that's a rule the media always call me by my legal name which doesn't really bother me but just to prefer my combat name because this is what they always call me among the guerrillas and for me this is part of the rebel spirit. to what have you gained by joining the guerrillas was it something you couldn't get in europe where your life

was peaceful and prosperous according to many. i believe being among gorillas is the most important thing for me is the appreciation of the international solidarity by the guerrillas that i experience in my daily routine i would often go somewhere minding my own business and then someone would come up to me and say i'm really proud of you for being here i am happy that i don't have to feel alone in this battle in spite of everything that the media has said about us all the negative propaganda against us and spite of all that you came over to help us it's very important for me i would never get anything like that back in the netherlands. you know do you have any regrets do you ever think about the way many young ladies go about settling down and having the family thing where you. know that you will never never i mean i

had regrets many times when i would not be able to go through another track i was saying to myself i cannot do it i won't be able to do it but every time i go back i was happy i had managed these are the kind of obstacles that you put up for yourself and then you overcome them each time more successfully than the last time as her regret is about on having a family definitely no i wouldn't want a lot of that kind. what do you expect for your future do you see yourself involved in colombian politics for instance. by the way i see it my future is wilfork doing which has required for them if the organization needs me as a teacher or a politician i will do it for them. clark is by all means a key player in the armed conflict as been lasting for decades now and at stake in many lives do you accept this responsibility would you be willing to ask forgiveness for anything. i would be willing to ask for social justice rather than

forgiveness and that's it nothing will. thank you so much for this interview. is a secret laboratory to mccurdy was able to build the world's most sophisticated robots which will unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only on the. wealthy british style.

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